No happily ever after for California town chronicled in "Erin Brokovich"

By Jim SteinbergSan Bernardino Sun

Posted:
07/12/2013 02:59:47 PM EDT

Ghost Town: There is no 'happily ever after' for the town of Hinkley

Aiden Banks, 6, plays in the yard of his family's 10-acre land parcel in Hinkley on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Aiden is a third generation Hinkley resident. Seventeen years after Erin Brockovich and the movie she inspired was released, the future of the small High Desert town of Hinkley is at stake. (Rachel Luna / San Bernardino Sun)Seventeen years after a groundbreaking settlement that left some of this town's residents with millions from Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co., the Hinkley, ...

Sparkletts bottled water provided by PG&E sits on a driveway after being delivered to a home in Hinkley on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Many residents participate PG&E's water program, which provides Culligan and Sparkletts bottled water on a bi-monthly basis for cooking and drinking as an alternative to using contaminated ground water. (Rachel Luna / San Bernardino Sun)

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